The Secret Spring

by Pierre Benoît

Overview

Complete and Unabridged.

From a notice published in "The Bookman Advertiser:"

THE SECRET SPRING by Pierre Benoît.

A remarkable mystery story which has taken France by storm, over 50,000 copies having been sold there. At heart the reading public still demands a good plot, and the plot of The Secret SPRING will be readily recognized as the work of a master penman. It is an enthralling story, introducing characters which are far superior to the usual puppets of fiction. M. Benoit has been awarded this year's Grand Prix du Roman of five thousand francs, offered by the French Academy.

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From A FOREWORD in this volume:

Long have I hesitated to give back to Life the legacy left me by Death. But at last, reflecting that Lieutenant Vignerte and She whom he loved have vanished into the eternal shades, I have decided that there is no longer any reason to keep silence about the tragic events staged in the German court of Lautenburg-Detmold in the months immediately preceding the Great War.

P. B.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940185834992
Publisher:	Anthony Bly
Publication date:	11/13/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	914 KB

About the Author

Pierre Benoit (16 July 1886 – 3 March 1962) was a French novelist, screenwriter and member of the Académie française. He is perhaps best known for his second novel "L'Atlantide" (1919) that has been filmed several times.

His first novel, "Koenigsmark," was published in 1918; "L'Atlantide" was published the next year and was awarded the Grand Prize of the Académie française, from which he became a member in 1931.

In 1923 Benoit was sent to Turkey as a journalist of Le Journal and later visited other nations. During this decade, many of his novels were turned into films, including "La Châtelaine du Liban."

Benoit was an admirer of Maurice Barrès and Charles Maurras. During the Nazi Occupation of France, Benoît joined the "Groupe Collaboration", a pro-Nazi arts group which led him to be arrested in September 1944; he was eventually released after six months, but his work remained on the "blacklist" of French Nazi collaborators for several years afterwards

He attempted to resign from the Académie française in 1959 in protest over their refusal to accept the writer Paul Morand after his application was vetoed by General Charles De Gaulle.

Late in his life, Benoit gave a series of interviews with the French writer Paul Guimard.

He died in March 1962 in Ciboure.